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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1915
Page
2
An excerpt lists plants that help sustain wild ducks and notes frogbit, eel grass, musk grass, and water elm as important foods. Frogbit seeds feed ringneck ducks. eel grass and musk grass are common in coastal regions. water elm provides seasonal mast. The article covers distribution, habitat, and practical use for wildlife feeding.
Watercress grows across the United States from cool springs to shallow ponds and is easily seeded or transplanted. Thalia, noted in Florida and the Deep South, provides large nutritious seeds and tall elegant leaves. it thrives in sloughs and may attract ducks, suggesting strong wild duck food potential from Florida to Missouri and South Carolina.
A found record in Wilmington attests the Wilmington social library was organized December 31, 1795 with a constitution by laws and subscribers. The relic, now at the Pette Memorial Library, lists fines for damages to various books including tallow spills and torn bindings.
A vault at the Board of Trade loan office in South Bend was robbed by yeggs who cut a two foot hole in the wall and removed about 150 watches and several hundred dollars in furs. A box of pearls worth $10,000 was burned, and a candle wick found on top of the safe suggests the fire started during the burglary. A hammer and file are the only tools recovered as clues.
Mrs. Claria Ausbury of Seneca Ohio aged 104 visits the Pennsylvania station with an adopted daughter. She tours the station with interest in its construction and converses easily with staff, staying at 303 East Williams Street with Mrs. Carrie Walter.
The Elkhart county board hires G E Metzger of Kewanna to replace C L Coffeen as county agricultural agent. Metzger agrees after travel pay rise from 5 to 7 cents per mile. salary set at 1600 dollars yearly, Coffeen previously earned 2000. A misread fire alarm incident involved Myrtle Troutner, with a $1000 dispute.
Fragmentary OCR shows a financial year report tallying 274 717 284 against 269 902 944 and notes approval by Dale J Critten editor of state, submitted to the governor.
Wabash Everett Stewart and Davia Barrett are jailed after an alleged kidnapping attempt on Mrs. Stewart. She says Barrett strangled her while Stewart forced her into a car from a local garage, and they were driven toward the countryside until deputies overtook them. Mrs. Stewart has filed for divorce.
Washington Secretary Lane proposed a Riley Day across schools to honor James Whitcomb Riley. He noted Riley and Howells as the last two survivors of a distinct American literary generation and urged school superintendents to mark the anniversary on Thursday in October.
After two days the jury in Lawrence circuit court returned a verdict of $3000 in the personal injury suit of Enoch Davis against Showera Brothers Company. Davis sought $10,000. The case moved to Lawrence from Bloomington where the defendant runs a furniture plant.
Police investigated a partially exploded device found near the Miller Narvaiah bakery in Tolleston. The Gary force said the bomb was placed at the front of the shop and the incident remained under mystery as officers examined the scene.
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